These projects help companies leverage AI to tackle pressing business needs

Artificial intelligence is the common theme that connects the winners in the Business Products and Services category of 2026 World Changing Ideas. AI proved its dominance in this year’s innovations for businesses, helping to accelerate critical clinical trials, fight online hackers, and even rival LLMs at their own search game. Winners Autonomous offensive cybersecurity , Xbow For all its benefits, AI is also supercharging cyberattacks, 80% of which use the technology for everything from data br